拍品专文
The arms are those of Bardot di Bardi, Comte Magaloti (1610-1705), who in 1675 was Maréchal de Camp and in 1677 Gouverneur de Valenciennes.
This tapestry series was designed by Charles LeBrun in 1659/60 at Vaux-Le-Vicomte for the tapestry manufactory founded by Fouquet, the finance minister to Louis XIV, at Maincy. When in 1662 this manufactory was absorbed by that of the Gobelins, eleven portières centred by the arms of France and Navarre were on the looms and one hung at Vaux. In 1664 Colbert commissioned a set of six tapestries from this series bearing his arms and with slight alterations. For his set the two half-maidens do not grow out of cornucopiae holding laurel-festoons but stand flanking the central arms and support drapery as in this tapestry. Furthermore he had the lion of the original series in the lower corner replaced by a cockerel.
This tapestry is not recorded in M. Fenaille, Etat Général des Tapisseries de la Manufacture des Gobelins depuis son Origine jusqu'à nos Jours, Paris, 1923, vol. I, pp. 1-8.
This tapestry series was designed by Charles LeBrun in 1659/60 at Vaux-Le-Vicomte for the tapestry manufactory founded by Fouquet, the finance minister to Louis XIV, at Maincy. When in 1662 this manufactory was absorbed by that of the Gobelins, eleven portières centred by the arms of France and Navarre were on the looms and one hung at Vaux. In 1664 Colbert commissioned a set of six tapestries from this series bearing his arms and with slight alterations. For his set the two half-maidens do not grow out of cornucopiae holding laurel-festoons but stand flanking the central arms and support drapery as in this tapestry. Furthermore he had the lion of the original series in the lower corner replaced by a cockerel.
This tapestry is not recorded in M. Fenaille, Etat Général des Tapisseries de la Manufacture des Gobelins depuis son Origine jusqu'à nos Jours, Paris, 1923, vol. I, pp. 1-8.